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What is LIS?
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LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?

Call for Papers for the 11th Young Economists Conference 2022 “Political Economy of Power”
Call for Papers for the 11th Young Economists Conference 2022 "Political Economy of Power". Pre-conference workshop on the introduction to LIS data will take place on October 6th.

Applications to the LIS Summer Workshop, 4-8 July 2022 are Now Open!
LIS is happy to announce that its Summer Workshop is taking place in Luxembourg from the 4th to 8th of July 2022.

Investigating Inclusive Income Growth with LIS Data
Parolin and Gornick attempt to adjudicate different perspectives on inclusive growth and identify the levels and sources of inclusive income growth across eight high-income countries from the 1980s to 2010s.

The Evolution and the Shape of Inequality in Mali: an Income-based Approach
In this article, the authors look at inequality in Mali based on income data rather than the more usual consumption-based approach.